Why Believe in God?
Reason #35
The geographical settings of the Bible stories are accurate.
Then they sailed to the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. And when He stepped out on the land, there met Him a certain man from the city who had demons for a long time.
Then the demons went out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the lake and drowned.
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Luke 8:26,33 (NKJV)During a week I spent wandering around the Sea of Galilee area I rented a bicycle and spent a day riding around the lake. The entire lake shore area is either flat or connects to low rolling hills. But on the east side of the lake there is one place where the above story would have taken place. There is one stretch of shore that lies at the foot of tall hills where the pigs would have run down into the sea and drowned. Also there have been found tombs in the area.
The Bible has told of peoples and places and events that only thousands of years later were verified by archaeological digs. If such detail has been laid out for us, is it not conceivable that the rest of the story is true also?